What would happen to an area if a fire happened? What would happen to the animals and people?
It would burn. The people and animals would have a hard time breathing and get sick or die.
100
Name two decomposers. What do decomposers do in the food chain?
Mushrooms, worms. Break down dead plants and animals.
100
What is migration? What is hibernation?
When animals fly to a warmer place for the winter. When animals go into a long deep sleep during the winter.
200
Name three physical adaptations.
camouflage, mimicry, fur, horns, claws
200
Is a bear an omnivore, herbivore, or carnivore?
omnivore
200
How can humans affect our sources of water?
Throw trash in it, runoff, oil spills.
200
What does adaptation mean?
An animal fitting its environment in order to survive.
200
Name three behavioral adaptations.
hibernation, migration, teaching children to hunt
300
What makes adaptations physical?
Physical adaptations are how an animal looks.
300
Give an example of a food chain. What is the producer, consumer, and decomposer? What is being passed from one to another
sun -- any plant -- any animal -- worm, fungus. Energy
300
What is conservation? Name three ways you can conserve resources.
Protecting the resources you have. Turning off the water when you brush your teeth, picking up litter, protecting endangered species.
300
What would a flood do to the environment, people, and animals?
It would erode the soil, drown or spread disease to people and animals.
300
What makes adaptations behavioral?
They have to do with something an animal does or how an animal acts.
400
If an animal was a carnivore in the arctic what two adaptations would he need?
fat or fur, claws or sharp teeth
400
Give an example of a predator. Give an example of its prey. What is the difference between predator and prey?
lion, zebra. Predator is the one who hunts and prey is the one that is hunted.
400
What is runoff?
When trash gets washed into the rivers, lakes, and streams.
400
What is erosion? How does it affect the environment.
When soil gets washed or blown away. It can destroy an animal's habitat by knocking down trees.
400
What is the difference between learned behavior and instinct? Give an example of each.
Instinct is something animals are born knowing (spider spinning a web). Learned behavior is something animals have to learn after they are born (people reading).
500
Name two sets of animals that use mimicry. What is mimicry? Why is it a good way to defend yourself?
Viceroy -- monarch, king -- coral. Mimicry is copying a creature that animals would not want to eat. Animals will think you are that creature and not want to eat you.
500
If in a food chain a consumer caught a disease what would happen to the producer? What would happen to the decomposer?
Producers would overpopulate, decomposers would not have food.
500
What is species monitoring?
Keeping track of how many species there are in an area.
500
What is resource renewal? Give an example.
Taking care of our resources. If a plant is endangered we would protect that plant and keep it in captivity until it was thriving.